A great idea from Ian Gilbert via the Independent Thinking website. 8 Way thinking takes Gardner’s MIs and creates a thinking scaffolding based around: Numbers Words People Feelings Nature Actions Sounds Sights So, in the example quoted on the website, if the topic being studied was beer, students might come up with: How much beer […]
Weekly tips
From the ‘finally got round to it’ category comes this idea which has been on the cards since about this time last year in one form or another… As part of my job as SMART coordinator I need to keep staff up to speed on some of the activities we’re doing with year 7 to […]
And I’m feeling good
Our new unit this half term in SMART is ‘Community’ and we’re starting off looking at the class as a community. As part of that we’ve been talking about respecting other people’s feelings. Today we had a great lesson that created loads of buzz, so I thought I’d share it here. We started by talking […]